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Article: Religion and politics at the border: Canadian church support for American Vietnam War resisters.
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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In May 1971, in the Admiral's Room of the Detroit airport, 12 miles (20 kilometres) from the U.S.-Canadian border, delegates to a joint conference of the Canadian Council of Churches and the U.S.-based National Council of Churches closed their meeting by speculating whether the groups' cooperation on the handling of draft resisters and military deserters who had left the United States for Canada could act as any sort of model for U.S.-Canadian relations in general. (1) This was a particularly prescient concern about which to speculate. The resister-deserter issue had been a sore point between the two nations for the past several years, particularly the previous two. (2) ...